SCU supports heart disease awareness

Wednesday

Feb 6, 2013 at 3:15 AM

PORTSMOUTH -- Service Credit Union employees once again joined forces with “New Hampshire Goes Red For Women Day” as part of National Wear Red Day on Friday, February 1 to show their support for women’s heart disease awareness. This year, Service Credit Union will give additional support to the American Heart Association by celebrating a month-long Service Credit Union Fitness Challenge.

Cindy Rybczyk of the New Hampshire American Heart Association came out to address the Service Credit Union employees taking part in the day’s event.

National Wear Red Day is a national awareness campaign for women about heart disease sponsored by the American Heart Association. The organization created and introduced the Red Dress as the national symbol for women and heart disease awareness in 2002. This observance promotes the Red Dress symbol and provides an opportunity for everyone to unite in this life-saving awareness movement by showing off a favorite red dress, shirt, tie, or Red Dress Pin.

For the fifth straight year, Service Credit Union employees donated $5 a piece toward the cause and participated in a dress down day at the credit union. Service Credit Union matched employee donations for a contribution to the American Heart Association.

“National Wear Red Day is a great opportunity to reach out to women in our community and alert them to their personal risk factors for heart disease,” says Gordon Simmons, President/CEO of Service Credit Union. “By wearing red and participating on February 1st, we showed our support for heart disease awareness.”

National Wear Red Day is an annual event held on the first Friday in February. The first observance, in February 2004, was announced at the White House. On National Wear Red Day, women and men across the country wear red to unite in the national movement to give women a personal and urgent wakeup call about their risk of heart disease.

To raise even more money for the New Hampshire American Heart Association and to promote a healthy lifestyle, Service Credit Union will donate $50 per employee who completes the Fitness Challenge during the month of February 2013 up to $3,000. To be eligible for the Service Credit Union Fitness Challenge, more than 200 employees signed up to perform at least 20 minutes of exercise three times a week for four weeks.

Service Credit Union will post the employees’ progress on the Service Credit Union facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/ServiceCreditUnion and on our Twitter page. Service Credit Union will also be encouraging members to join in on the fitness challenge and post their experiences and progress during the month of February.

With over $2.2 billion in assets, Service Credit Union has 22 branches in New Hampshire, one in Massachusetts, and 17 branches on U.S. military bases in Germany.